1970--I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, (Live At The Fillmore East, 70)--TEN YEARS AFTER--E.D.1959

In 1967, four young musicians from Nottinghamshire, England, Leo Lyons, Ric Lee, Chick Churchill together with Alvin Lee, formed Ten Years After and became one of the biggest names and the most explosive quartet on the world stage.
Their now legendary encore, “ I’m Going Home” performed at The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in August 1969, was captured on film and exposed their jazz, blues, rock amalgam to a large audience who were blown away by the intensity of the band’s performance when the Academy Award winning documentary was released. Their ten-minute appearance in the film is an acknowledged highlight and established Ten Years After a place in rock history.
From 1968 to 1975 constant touring, playing important musical events like The Newport Jazz Festival, The Miami Pop Festival, The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, The Toronto Peace Festival and huge venues like The Albert Hall London, Madison Square Gardens, NY. and The Budokan, Tokyo, exposed the band’s music to a Global Audience. It is estimated that they performed to in excess of 75,000 new fans a week. Almost four million people a year, not counting those who saw the band in the ‘Woodstock’ film. Between 1967 and 1974, Ten Years After recorded and released ten multi-million selling albums.
Sadly, Alvin Lee decided to go solo in 1975 and the group ceased touring and recording. However, there has always been a demand for Ten Years After and, over the following twenty-plus years, there were to be three short-lived attempts at reformation and one new studio record, ‘About Time’. Each time, Alvin quit to return to his solo career.
Starting in 2001, to take advantage in the growing interest in legendary bands like Ten Years After, EMI and Decca Records in conjunction with Ric Lee, digitally re-mastered and re-released the whole Ten Years After back catalog, most with bonus tracks, including a “find” that had lain unnoticed - the 1970 live recording of the band at its peak at the Fillmore East in New York. Ric and Chick both approached Alvin with a view to touring to support the releases, but Alvin declined. It was a frustrating situation and once again it seemed that fans would be denied hearing the music played live.
A chance opportunity early in 2002 for the three founder members of Ten Years After- Leo Lyons (bass), Chick Churchill (keyboards) and Ric Lee (Drums) to work together gave them an insight into the intense, re-awakened interest in the band. By public request, the band re-formed. With new member, sensational, twenty-seven year old guitarist/vocalist Joe Gooch, they recreated the music, energy and excitement they’d been known for over the past four decades.
“Ten Years After……Now”, the band’s first studio album, was released April 2004 in Europe and came out on July 18th 2000’ label. Throughout 2004 the band toured Germany, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Scandinavia, France, Czech Republic and Canada. 2005 and 2006 proved to be even busier with tours in UK, Western Europe, Russia, USA & Canada, Poland and Lithuania. January 2007 started with the band’s most successful tour of Germany, Austria and Switzerland; breaking box office records at every show.
Following his split from the band, guitarist Alvin Lee mostly played and recorded under his own name. Sadly he died from complications during a routine medical procedure on 6 March 2013 to the great shock and surprise of the remaining founder members.
August 2005 saw the release of TYA’s double live album “Roadworks” in Europe to great critical acclaim. The band toured Europe and the USA relentlessly during 05, 06, 07 and 08 but somehow managed to find time to record a bunch of new material. November 2008 saw the release of another studio album - “Evolution”. A long-awaited DVD ‘Live At Fiesta City’ was recorded on 30th August 2008 in Verviers, Belgium and is still selling dramatically today around the world.
In 2009, Ten Years After completed a highly successful US tour, ‘Heroes Of Woodstock’ in company of many old friends, Canned Heat, Big Brother and The Holding Company, Jefferson Starship and Tom Constanten.
International touring continued in subsequent years including another highly successful tour of the USA in 2013, taking in 22 cities in five weeks, this time with Canned Heat, Edgar Winter Band, Pat Travers and Rick Derringer. Immediately following the American trip, in Autumn 2013, the band embarked on a tour of Europe, visiting Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Spain to tremendous acclaim.

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I could listen to this song 1000 times.💙
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WowZA🙀…. How hot is “10 Years After “ !!!! Wished I’d been paying more attention to them when I was living in that dream of growing up 😎💓🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

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Live at the Fillmore East 1970 Review by Hal Horowitz
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This superbly recorded double disc (the original engineer was Eddie Kramer, best-known for his work with Hendrix) captured over a weekend worth of dates in February 1970 at the venerable New York City venue catches the Brit boogie quartet at the peak of their powers. These shows were sandwiched between their triumphant Woodstock set and the release of Cricklewood Green, generally considered the band's best work. They find the group primed through years of roadwork, as well as obviously excited to be playing in front of an appreciative N.Y.C. crowd. Kicking off with one of Bill Graham's patented individual-member intros, the group winds their way through the ominous riff of "Love Like a Man." Mixing extended and rocking versions of blues standards -- like Sonny Boy Williamson classics "Help Me" and "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl," as well as Willie Dixon's "Spoonful" -- with two Chuck Berry covers and some nuggets from their own catalog, Ten Years After burns through this show with enormous energy and infectious enthusiasm. Alvin Lee and his flying fingers stay firmly in the spotlight, but the remastered sound is so immaculate you can finally appreciate the contributions of the other, generally overlooked TYA members: Chick Churchill on keyboards and especially Leo Lyons' fluid bass work, along with Ric Lee's jazzy drums. The songs shift into overdrive on the jams -- the longest of which pushes "I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes" to 20 minutes -- and amazingly stay interesting for the majority of that time thanks to Lee's sense of flashy dynamics, as he quotes liberally from Hendrix and Cream licks. Detailed liner notes from drummer Lee describe the scene, not only in terms of Ten Years After, but also of the musical camaraderie of the time. Some of this is almost embarrassingly dated -- the drum solo-laden "The Hobbit" is particularly guilty, as are the often-interminable guitar gymnastics -- and the Chuck Berry numbers might have been live crowd-pleasers but don't add much to the originals. Still, this is the best Ten Years After concert album (of the three in the catalog), and proves just how vibrant these boogie boys could be when inspired by the crowd and each other on a perfect night.